September 10, 1938
В Leningrad was born Evgeny Tatarsky — film director and screenwriter who directed The Golden Mine and The Adventures of Prince Florizel.
Boredom is more dangerous for the soul than risk for the body.
(The Adventures of Prince Florizel)
He spent his childhood in evacuation in Tambov, with his mother (she was a pastry chef and technologist, the creator of the "Leningradsky" cake). His father, an engineer and inventor, died on the Leningrad front.
He graduated from high school in Leningrad. There, he enrolled in the Hydrometeorological Center to study ecology, but dropped out after a year. He applied twice to the Theater Institute, both for acting and directing, but failed.
Worked as a loader at Lennauchfilm.
He began his film career as an assistant director and quickly became a second director.
First day of shooting. I had to get to work on set. Kheifits: "Zhenya, let's get going." "Let's get going," he said. And in the shot, Papanov and some old women are walking out of the market, right next to the studio. Apparently, from my confused expression, cameraman Genrikh Maranjyan realized I'd lost it. He said, "Zhenya! Take Papanov, start with him, and then you can arrange the old women."
In the 1960s, he traveled with film crews “all over the Soviet Union, from the Arctic Ocean to the border with Iran.”
In 1964 he came to Lenfilm, and in 1969 he graduated from the Institute of Culture.
In 1973, he made his first independent film, "Fire in the Outbuilding," based on Viktor Dragunsky's "Deniskin Stories." He invited [the author] to play one of the leading adult roles. Oleg Dahl. The film received the Grand Prix in Munich (the first "Crystal Globe" in the USSR).
Without false modesty: I was a gifted actor.
When I had conflicts with Gosteleradio and they didn't approve of my films, I would stroke the globe on the table and say, "Well, as you wish. I..."
In 1977 he filmed the psychological detective “The Golden Mine,” which instantly became popular—with the same Dahl, Lyubov Polischuk и Larisa Udovichenko. His career took off after the newspaper Pravda called him exemplary.
It was a reversal of how detective stories should be filmed: on the left side, it's how it should be filmed, and on the right side, it's how it shouldn't be filmed. The how it should be filmed was my film "Golden Mine," but I don't remember how it shouldn't be filmed. And this really helped me when I was submitting my subsequent films.
In 1979, the success was cemented by the three-part series "The Adventures of Prince Florizel." And again, a stellar cast: Dahl, Polishchuk, Elena Solovey, Mikhail Pugovkin. In the USSR, the film was watched until it was worn out.
I only know of two films as stylish as "Florizel." The other is "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg."
(directed by Alexey German)
On the eve of perestroika, commissioned by the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, he produced the film "Jack Vosmerkin - American"—a comedy bordering on farce about an American inspired by the ideas of "communism." He invited Evgeniya Evstigneeva, Lev Durov и Alexandra Kuznetsova.
In the 1990s, he directed several episodes of Streets of Broken Lights and Lethal Force.
In "Deadly Force" I introduced the audience to the actor Kostya Khabensky
He is also remembered by audiences for the films Charlotte's Necklace, Presumption of Innocence, Prison Romance, and Blood Drinkers.
His last directorial work was the miniseries Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin (2001), which Tatarsky himself considered a failure.
In 2012, he published his memoirs, “Notes of a Film Director about Many and a Little About Himself.”
I can't work with people I don't like.
In the summer of 2014, he suffered a nasty fall and broke his hip. He died in 2015 due to deteriorating health following the injury. He was 76.
